I forgot to watch Lost two weeks in a row. I’m watching it now, catching up, and wondering why I don’t feel an urgency to watch this show, to see what’s going to happen week to week. Why don’t I feel this kind of low-grade desperation for Tuesday night to get here, just so I can camp out in front of the TV and see what happens next?

Maybe it’s because this whole air of secrecy (the story parcels out bits and pieces of information. You, the viewer, are on a strictly need-to-know basis) is all a little too much for me. They’ve pushed me so far back that they’ve succeeded more in distancing me from the story than drawing me in. Which, I suppose, is a valid risk to take when telling a story. Unless it fails.

I also know that there’s a risk, a big risk, that this show is going to end and leave us with…nothing. Just a lot of questions.